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the directors started making pots of tea which she served Nike Air Force Brown to her husband and his fellow directors. Given what the company imported, she did not lack for supplies, but over the next 300 years, the tea lady evolved into an adored figure whose brew, served at 11 am and 3 pm, would sooth the Air Max 2014 Colors

﻿ was an obituary column dedicated to office life there would be multiple entries for items such as ledgers, smoking, and the tea lady. Ledgers, in which all information was entered in largely chronological order, made it exceedingly difficult to retrieve information with ease. Prior to the invention of the filing cabinet in 1868, the sudden death of a valued clerk could be a disaster for a business if his colleagues were unaware of his distinctive and idiosyncratic filing system. Notes, letters and accounts could be lost for years. The arrival in the 19th century of towering drawers was a godsend for some clerks and the arrival of a whole new world of tedium for others. Even today, in the era of the so called paperless office we still collectively cram over two million tonnes of paper in these silent sepulchres of old ideas.

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most fevered brow and act as a metronome, sounding out the day. In 2003 Scottish Enterprise still had a tea lady called Isa Allan, who was given an MBE by the Queen and described as the "heart and soul" of the office. I, myself, began my career in this, still inky trade, (yes, the printing press, looking pale, poorly and with a shocking cough the obituarists are, as I type, quietly measuring him up for a digital shroud) as a form of "tea lady", this involved no displays of transvestism but as a copy boy I was required to fetch tea and coffee for certain members of staff, repor.

Smoking was a perfectly reasonable office pursuit for hundreds of years, when Dickens trudged into the office his fellow workers liked to partake of snuff: "The clerk, smiled as he said this, and inhaled the pinch of snuff with a zest which seemed to be compounded of a fondness for snuff and a relish for fees. " Cigarettes were the fashion in offices for almost a century until corporations and the government finally wised up that smoking staff were not only killing themselves but their colleagues and, strictly speaking, killing oneself, however slowly should obviously be done on one's own time. In my early days in journalism smoking was finally banned from the Herald's offices, driving one member of staff, for whom the act of composing sentences was inextricably linked to the rhythms of inhaling and lighting cigarettes,to seek refuge in the Press Bar, which was, in an act of journalistic benevolence unimaginable today, actually Air Max Bw

part of the building. An hour before deadline he would retire to the bar where he puffed and wrote into a pad and then phoned in his article to the copytakers, another sad addition to the obituary of office life. However of them all, one of the longest and most fondly remembered was the tea lady.